Category: British Politics Facts and Figures

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Clapham

CANDIDATE : Curtis

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Beatrice Curtis was a lecturer at King’s College, London, until her marriage. She joined the Liberal Party during the General Election campaign of 1945 and was first chairman of the Balham and Tooting Liberal Association. She was prospective candidate for Balham and Tooting until the redistribution, and was then adopted for the Clapham division. She was born in 1903.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Accrington

CANDIDATE : Hynd

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Hynd was member for Central Hackney (now absorbed in South Hackney) in the last Parliament, and was Parliamentary private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, and later to the Minister of Defence. Born in 1900 in Perth, he attended Perth Academy and, after working as a railway clerk, became a branch secretary of the Railway Clerks’ Association and later a member of the headquarters staff. He has served as councillor and alderman of Hornsey.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barnsley

CANDIDATE : Spencer

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. G. Spencer, a former National Coal Board official and advertising consultant, has held several commercial appointments in the United States and Canada, as well as in this country. Born in London, he was educated at London Uniyersity, and served in both world wars. His wife contested Nuneaton as a Conservative.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Beckenham

CANDIDATE : Monroe

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. H. Monroe, a barrister, aged 29, was born in Dublin and educated at Rugby and Oxford. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery and served in India and Burma. Called to the Bar in 1948, he is a Harmsworth scholar of Middle Temple. He specializes in income-tax and revenue work.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Erdington

CANDIDATE : Wright

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Air Cdre. A. C. Wright, the M.P. for the “vision from 1936 to 1945, is 64. He was “ucated at Winchester. After service in the urst world war he raised, in 1926, the 605 a™ a’y of Warwick) Squadron of the Auxili-year Force> which he commanded for 10 rnr>H a of which he is now hon. air com-com For four yeare from 1941 he was Trail? ant for the Midlands of the Air •raining Corps.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Northfield

CANDIDATE : Iremonger

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. L. Iremonger is 33, and a public relations officer, and was formerly on the staff r I Conservative Central Office. A cousin oi Mr. Anthony Eden, he was at Oxford, after which he joined the Colonial Administrative service. In 1942 he enlisted in the Royal New ?Zealand Navy as an ordinary seaman, and was ^<2fimissi°necI- tne f°Ilowfng year. serving until ly46. His wife has achieved distinction as a writer, lecturer, and broadcaster.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Yardley

CANDIDATE : Matthews

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Matthews, a chartered accountant, is secretary and a director of two well-known Birmingham businesses. Aged 40, he was born m Birmingham and educated at Repton. He was at the Admiralty during the war on financial work.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bolton East

CANDIDATE : Bell

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Bell is a chancery barrister practising in Manchester and is aged 50. Born at Wimbledon, he was educated at Stonyhurst College and at Queen’s College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1925. He served in the Royal Navy in the first world war, and in the second he was commissioned and served in France. In 1941 he joined the staff of the Judge Advocate General.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bradford Central

CANDIDATE : Sarsby

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. F. Sarsby, who is 38, is an aeronautical engineer, living at Wraysbury. During the war he was engaged with the Pathfinder Force under Air Vice-Marshal Bennett, who is now again his chief in the aircraft company by whom he is employed.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Brighouse and Spenborough

CANDIDATE : Woolley

PARTY : Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. E. Woolley, who was born in 1901, was National Liberal M.P. for Spen Valley. 1940-45, being defeated at the last election. A native of Blackburn, he is 49, and joint managing director of a firm of manufacturing chemists. In the war, he was on the headquarters staff of South-Eastern Command and later Western Command, reaching the rank of major. He has held many offices in Methodism.

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